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Classic designs are around for a reason. Why one piece becomes a sensation over another is always a matter of debate. In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a ...

The Abbey Church of St. John the Baptist at Saint John’s University (Photograph by Greg Becker) In 1953, Saint John’s University, in Minnesota, invited 12 well-known architects to come to Saint John’s ...

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Model of the Whitney Museum designed by Marcel Breuer at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) PARIS — “What should a museum look like, ...

Then, inside the museum’s show, the deep collections of the Vitra Design Museum will take you back to Breuer’s beginnings with a series of revelatory chairs he made at the 1920s Bauhaus, where he ran ...

At a time when quite a few mid-century Modernist structures are threatened with demolition, a new retrospective exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., aims to remind people of ...

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It may not look like it, but you can draw a straight line from Marcel Breuer's classic chair designs of the 1920s to the off-kilter concrete box that, in 1966, became home to New York's Whitney Museum ...

Setting aside Breuer’s place in the modernist canon, the renovation stands on its own as a capable reuse project, overwhelmingly concerned with immediate rather than historical stakes. It is a modest, ...

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